I’ve been listening to the best tinfoil ever.  It’s all about the speculation about underwater civilizations co-existing on the planet, with huge underwater metal mining operations that crawl along the ocean floor, and have tiny ships that move in excess of 250 miles per hour underwater.  My inner critic is like, yeah right, the physics of water would make that speed just a little bit unlikely.  I suppose I needed something fun about mermen and mermaids to go with all of those ancient fish religions, including the pope’s fish hat.  That would explain the UFOs.  They’d be fish people UFOs, Earth based, but not human based, and the underwater Antarctica bases would be theirs as well.  Isn’t rampant speculation fun?

What really sparked my interest, though, was the notion that space aliens are going to return and claim to own us as their slaves, and that we should be legally disputing that claim.  I suppose if we can’t be bothered to get off the planet and visit the local planning office at Alpha Centauri, we deserve the destruction of our planet?  It seems that the fish people created humans, and then the space aliens lied to us and said that they created us instead in order to assert ownership over us.  See, that’s the bit about polytheism and animism that is so much more functional than monotheism on pantheism.  The creator god may not be the sustainer god.  The creator god may have been a slave himself, and his work product owned by another god.  The creator goddess may have died, and Earth’s inheritance may have been stuck in contested interplanetary court proceedings for over 10,000 years.  Maybe the inhabitants of Earth earned their freedom from slavery thousands of years ago.  Maybe the inhabitants of Earth were never owned by others until found and possessed.  How does the interplanetary law of possession work anyway?  Is the Earth eligible for an alien court guardian ad litem?

This notion has been in the movies and TV shows.  It’s all over the place if you know what to look for.  Stargate, Star Trek, Star Wars, Babylon 5.  It’s in the fiction books as well.

Remember how I said that I didn’t think there was alien contact with Earth, because their microbiology would be different than ours and cause serious life impacts?  Well, what if space is filled with space-faring microbes and fungi, continually raining down upon the planet from above, and obscuring the space-station and satellite equipment?  Poor Hubble Telescope mirrors, always getting a film of algae on them.  What if space is filled with water bubbles, containing space-faring life?  If that were true, then aliens could come and go without impacting life on Earth quite so much, because the solar wind would be like the bloodstream, bringing bacteria and other microlife from here to there throughout the galaxy.

If there are space-faring aliens, capable of stepping outside of the ever-present now, there would be more than one kind.  Would they fight over the ownership of humans?  Are humans classified as dependent, or property?  Or are they classified as sovereign and therefore have no protectors?  Ah, there’s the rub.  Not all slavery is as bad as freedom to die in poverty and filth and rot.  Sometimes, people join the Army and become slaves because it is better than the alternative.  So, this still has the elements of consent, and giving away your power.  When there is a chain of inheritance at stake, you need to make sure you’ve found all the possible heirs.  When there is a contract at stake, you need to make sure it isn’t fraudulent or void.  You also need to make sure that the property is spelled out precisely.  “Show me the paper” isn’t just for mortgages.  It is necessary for intergalactic treaties as well.  Did the signatory actually have the authority to sign away the descendants’ rights for eternity?  Was there an interruption in the chain of authority by conquest?  If stolen, can the rightful owner be found?  What about adverse possession?  Can one alien species adversely possess the Earth for the prescribed period of time while paying their taxes?  Why do I assume that there are intergalactic taxes?  What are the taxes anyway, cow adrenal glands and teenage boy testosterone in injectable form?  Or was it gold?  Nah, more likely to be copper and Moscovium.